A broken radiator hose on his Mustang takes him on a precarious detour to a hole in The guy driving the car is small time grifter Bobby (Sean Penn), and while it's not immediately clear why he's driving down the largelyĪbandoned highway, it's clear he's a man on a mission. Vegas? In a way, that's something of a trick question, for U Turn is arguably Oliver Stone's most "Gilliam-esque" film, one rife with oddįramings, bizarre drug fueled "POV" shots, and a carnival like atmosphere where characters seem to be just this "real life" side of His sobriety aside by popping a bunch of drugs as his car veers wildly through a tumbleweed strewn highway. Thriller and (if you peek beneath some of the florid surface) even slaptstick comedy.Ī seemingly intoxicated guy drives a bright red convertible through the wide open expanses of the American Southwest and then puts any Points that he in fact created a quasi-hallucinatory dreamscape that creeps into a surprisingly wide array of cinematic niches, including film noir, He sees as his achievements in the film, and as with that "substance" element alluded to above, it's hard to argue with some of the director's Stone is also not shy about trumpeting what Included on this Blu-ray as a supplement, Stone is not shy about confessing how "tired" he was at the time of U Turn, and how heĪched in a way for an "easy shoot," something that U Turn most definitely did not provide. To deal in genre tropes while at the same time investing them with a supposedly innovative ambience. Overstuffed on the style side of things, but there's still a rather piquant dialectic between the two that reveals a masterful filmmaker attempting Some may argue that Stone's lesser remembered 1997 opus U Turn is light on the substance angle and Stone's films is often deliberately controversial (e.g., JFK), but it's Preposition separating the two nouns, Stone's work might be better seen as style vs. So that epigram might be slightly modified in his case to provide a more accurate descriptor of at least some of his films. In fact has been accused of perhaps donning a tin foil headpiece at times, and Oliver Stone has never really been accused of being an empty hat, so to speak, and Style over substance has been one of those epigrams that has been used repeatedly to try to describe flashy filmmakers who perhapsĭon't have a lot to say, but who say it winningly anyway. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, April 10, 2015 Bobby and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
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